Visa Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:V)

17 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 14 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" V shares.
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17 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Visa's shares. Their V share price targets range from $243.00 to $300.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $275.67 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.1% from the stock's current price.
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Visa's stock was trading at $207.76 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, V shares have increased by 22.7% and is now trading at $254.93.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 25th 2024.
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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 24th. The credit-card processor reported $2.33 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $2.23 by $0.10. The credit-card processor earned $8.61 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $8.56 billion. Visa had a net margin of 52.90% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 50.13%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 10.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.93 EPS.
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Visa announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 24th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.52 per share on Friday, December 1st. This represents a $2.08 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.82%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 8th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.45.
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Visa (NYSE:V) pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.81%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 16 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 25.09%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, V will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.65% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Visa (NYSE:V) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF (IYG), Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF), iShares U.S. Industrials ETF (IYJ), Roundhill S&P Dividend Monarchs ETF (KNGS), Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF (FNCL), Fidelity Disruptive Finance ETF (FDFF), Vanguard Financials ETF (VFH) and ETFMG Prime Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY).

Shares of Visa split before market open on Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly issued shares were distributed to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

Visa declared that its board has initiated a share buyback program on Tuesday, October 25th 2022, which allows the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy up to 3.1% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

738 employees have rated Visa Chief Executive Officer Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. on Glassdoor.com. Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Visa investors own include Mastercard (MA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), PayPal (PYPL), Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Salesforce (CRM).

Visa's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (2.70%), Morgan Stanley (2.68%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.14%), Wellington Management Group LLP (1.03%), Royal Bank of Canada (1.01%) and Northern Trust Corp (0.92%). Insiders that own company stock include Alfred F Kelly Jr, James H Hoffmeister, Julie B Rottenberg, Lloyd Carney, Rajat Taneja, Robert W Matschullat, Robert W Matschullat, Ryan Mcinerney, Tullier Kelly Mahon and Vasant M Prabhu.
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